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Appendix, 'Experiments on the dynamical stability and the oscillation of floating bodies' by John Fincham and Robert Rawson

Reference number: PT/39/2i

Date: 1849

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Appendix accompanying paper by Henry Moseley found at PT/39/2. 31 manuscript pages including one figure.

Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On the dynamical stability and on the oscillations of floating bodies'.

Abstract of paper published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 5, 1851.

Reference number
PT/39/2i
Earliest possible date
1849
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
31 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator names

John Fincham

Robert Rawson

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John Fincham, Robert Rawson, Appendix, 'Experiments on the dynamical stability and the oscillation of floating bodies' by John Fincham and Robert Rawson, 1849, PT/39/2i, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_39_2i/appendix-experiments-on-the-dynamical-stability-and-the-oscillation-of-floating-bodies-by-john-fincham-and-robert-rawson, accessed on 19 May 2026

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